July

July 4th weekend Mi Mi and Paw Paw met us in Oxford to check on the progress of Austin's house. We walked around the square, ate lunch and enjoyed Ashton's 4th of July cake.

The next weekend we spent in Port Gibson just relaxing before Ashton's wisdom teeth removal on Monday. Ashton and I cooked a yummy dinner...including cookies! We accidentally put SALT instead of sugar on the peanut butter ones...ha-ha. What a surprise that was when I bit into it!


For my birthday, Ashton made me a beautiful cake and Mark cooked. Mom and Tom joined us for dinner.

Mark and I celebrated our 26th wedding anniversary at an Animal Rescue fund raising party. We had a great time and did not come home with ANOTHER rescue dog!! Thank Goodness!! The next weekend Austin closed on his house in Oxford. It was so exciting!
After we spent a little while at the house we all loaded up and headed to Jasper, Al for the weekend. Kudzu celebrated his first birthday with presents, home made treats and happies for Lulu and Beau!




Ashton and I went to Oxford to help Austin move into his new house the next week. We brought a truck load from home and he and Ellen brought two truck loads from Starkville. We had the best time setting stuff up and hanging pictures...His house is wonderful!

I know, this seems like more than one month, but I promise we are still in July!

That weekend we celebrated Mark's birthday in Port Gibson. Ashton made Mark a beautiful cake and a party hat!

We had a big night with cake, presents, whiskey, champagne, wine and probably a beer or two!

Believe it or not, we woke up the next morning and painted the dining room PINK! I've been trying to pick out the perfect shade of pink for months and months and felt like I finally had it right and everybody was there! Austin and Mark also cleaned out the yuck that had been building up behind the fireplace for many many years. What a mess that was!





We still have to finish some of the trim and paint the ceiling a pale pale blue, but it looked AWESOME! It feels so good to have finally accomplished something!

This last picture is for the one person who leaves me comments .... you know who you are! These were georgeous spider lilys ( or Nakked Ladies) the same color pink as the walls. They were blooming everywhere in Port Gibson.

This was the longest most difficult post I have ever done, please leave me comments and let me know who's reading my blog. I would love to hear from you!

June

I know I am so far behind in my posting!! I thought doing it a month at a time would make it much easier to keep up with, but again, I was wrong! ha-ha

The month of June was very relaxing compared to the previous months!

Austin went on several deep sea fishing trips with a few of his good friends he made at BSU. He had a wonderful time!

Ashton and I went to the beach with Nana and Tom for a few days....and poor Mark worked as usual.

I started this blog for posting news of the Heath House in Port Gibson and it's been quite a while since I have posted anything regarding our house in Port Gibson so here goes! I've been looking for two years,since we bought the house for a table to put in the dining room and have found two that I really like. One was at an auction and I could not even come close to the final price and that didn't include chairs, the other one was at an estate sale and it was "sold" when I walked in the door! So finally I saw one online at an upcoming estate sale and sent an email asking questions about it and decided to go to the estate sale and look at it.....I liked it alot and ended up buying it and the chairs ( which at first I didn't think I wanted). I got it all home ( two trips to West Point, MS ) and after cleaning it up and steam cleaning the green seat cushions on the chairs,I decided that it would look really good in my eat in kitchen and that the one I had there ( blue seat cushions) would look really good in Port Gibson. The one I bought has six chairs and the one I already had had eight chairs, and can easily seat TEN! What a great decision, I Love the one at home in Madison and I Love the one in Port Gibson! What do you think??

May 2009

What a wonderful busy month! Let's get started....

May started off with Austins graduation from MSU. Everybody was there for the celebration except Ashton, she was on a choir trip to Destin, Fl.

Austin changed before we went out to eat into his Ole Miss shirt! He sure let go of his bulldogs quickly!

The next weekend was Ashton's class day. It was held in the gym ( hard bleachers) and lasted THREE HOURS! Nana and Tom endured the whole thing, leaving a little early to save us seats at P.F. Changs for lunch. Mark and I surprised Ashton with a John Hardy ring. I had it wrapped in a vintage acrylic rhinestone studded purse!

That Sunday was Mother's Day. We decided since Austin had to work and couldn't come home that we would go to Starkville. Mark had a box of donuts for me for the ride there...YUM! Austin had planned a picnic on campus but it was raining so he set all the food up on his coffee table and had a movie ready to watch while we ate. For dessert he had a cookie cake with "Happy Birthday Ashton" on it, since he wasn't going to be able to be home for her Birthday! It was wonderful! After the rain, we walked around campus so that Ashton would be familiar with it in the fall. I rang a HUGE cow bell on campus! Kudzu was able to go with us and visit with Beau....

Wednesday, the 13th, was Ashton's 18th Birthday. We celebrated it at Fat Tuesday with her friend Betsey and Nana and Tom. She opened presents and had a cake! She got dressed the next day and wore her birthday earrings! Doesn't she look beautiful and all grown up!

The following weekend was Ashton's graduation. Sister came on Friday to be here for all of the festivities! Friday night, Nana and Tom threw Ashton a "Pretty in Pink" graduation party. Everything was PINK including most every one's outfits. Wes and Debbie, Reid and Tyler were there; along with Ellen and her parents Bubba and Carol and of course, Nana, Tom, Me and Mark, Mi Mi and Paw Paw and Austin.

Towards the end of the evening Austin surprised most everybody with a toast, with pink champagne in pink champagne glasses. The toast began with congrats to Ashton on her accomplishment and then he talked about the fact that it was his and Ellen's six year anniversary that night as well and it ended with him on one knee proposing to Ellen! It was so sweet and had us all in tears! And yes, Ellen said "YES"!

I know this is the longest post EVER, but there's MORE! haha.

Saturday was graduation day for Ashton. It went so smoothly thanks to Sister being here to calm my nerves and take all the pictures! It was wonderful having her here. We held up letters so Ashton could see where we were seated and to show her how much we love her! After graduation we went out for lunch!

What an exciting month this has been! Mark and I are so blessed to have such wonderful children and such a loving family. Austin is engaged to a wonderful girl and headed to law school in Oxford, MS. Ashton is 18 years old ( can't believe it) and headed to Mississippi State in the fall. I'm going to be sooooooo lonely come September!